“Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviews

[rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world]

Ugrading the A. I. to A. Aye!

[mogranja@lemmy.eco.br]

They should hire someone to name things there. The only worse name I can think of would be to drop the "App" and just call it "Windows".

[nutwrench@lemmy.world]

I think the best way to make the Internet less sh*tty is to get away from Google search.

I like the SearX search engine. It gives old-school, relevant search results, not google ranked ones.

https://search.inetol.net/

It's also spread out over many separate instances, so you can pick the one that best suits your search needs:

https://searx.space/

[saprophyte@lemmy.world]

Now how do I make "-site=reddit.com" the default? So tired of seeing people ask the same question I had without giving that asshole answers either.

[alphane_moon@lemmy.world]

I tried two instances search.inetol.net and priv.au and I got no results for basic web search.

But northboot.xyz worked.

Am I missing something? How do I pick a given instance?

[dojan@lemmy.world]

People can call me a shill if they want. I was curious when I first tried Kagi, but sceptical, but now I'm really happy. It's fun to see new features make it on there, and more than anything I love that I can make the search engine work for me instead of having to faff about trying to phrase stuff in a way where I can coax what I want out of it.

If I hate a particular website, I'll just block it and never see it again. It's so simple. The new "AI generated" tags on images is nice, and I hope we can see something similar for websites at some point too. Maybe flag sites that are known to use LLMs for garbage accumulation. There might already even be a blocklist for that.

[dirthawker0@lemmy.world]

I haven't tried this for adding a parameter but check this article about turning off the AI summary: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/google-chrome/bye-bye-ai-how-to-block-googles-annoying-ai-overviews-and-just-get-search-results

Jump down to "How to block AI overviews when searching from Chrome's address bar on the Desktop" and they walk through adding a Google search with an & parameter. Not sure if it will accept a -site: but worth a try

[iheartcheese@lemmy.world]

shitty

Don't mind me just here to corrupt the children you tried to save

[threshold_dweller@lemmy.today]

So stop using them. Google has been worse and worse for at least a decade.

[mergingapples@lemmy.world]

God damnit that pun is way too good.